A gritty, grainy, reportage look and feel to photos

February 3, 2008 – 3:08 pm

The above picture of a couple has been treated in Photoshop to give it a gritty, grainy, reportage look. This has also been described as the “Dave Hill effect” [...] Continue Reading…

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Photoshop trick for smoothing a model’s skin

January 27, 2008 – 3:33 pm

This is a quick technique to even out blemishes in a model’s skin. I came across this by accident but I think it’s a really good way to instantly [...] Continue Reading…

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Sierra boxes and amaray cases for CD and DVD packaging

January 19, 2008 – 7:48 pm

Here (above) are three sierra boxes I did for a music creation software company.

A sierra box is a piece of packaging is regularly used for computer games where the [...] Continue Reading…

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How to make CDs and DVDs in Illustrator

January 12, 2008 – 7:13 pm

This took me a while to figure out! The object is to get the gradient mesh to radiate out of the centre of a circle and that’s not as [...] Continue Reading…

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How to web 2.0 your logo

January 7, 2008 – 12:45 pm

After I had designed a vector logo for a client, I was asked to web 2.0-ify it.

This is what I did. The “Toby Beresford” and the cogs are on [...] Continue Reading…

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Two tips for design inspiration

January 5, 2008 – 6:59 pm

Keep it simple
Steal

Keep your designs simple

OK! This is easier said than done but this is paramount. If you want to live a happy life, keep it as simple as [...] Continue Reading…

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How to design perspective in Photoshop

December 31, 2007 – 3:39 pm

I used this image as a title slide in a PowerPoint presentation for MasterCard, one of my clients. It was a great excuse to do a reflection and transform [...] Continue Reading…

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How to design water reflections in Photoshop

December 31, 2007 – 3:04 pm

“Reflections are the new drop shadows!” If that’s the case, here’s how!

Copy the text layer – or layer – that you want to reflect (Cmd/Ctrl-J). If the layer that [...] Continue Reading…

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